Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything.
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton
"The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions" --G K Chesterton
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling

...the USCCB was right to lay a threefold stress on "the protection of innocent life from the use of lethal force from conception to natural death," "the maintenance of conscience protections," and "the realization of universal access to healthcare for all, especially the poor and migrants" in the health care debate. But Gregg says they overlooked the time-tested Catholic principle of social and economic justice called 'subsidiarity.'

...Subsidiarity is a Catholic principle of social order that puts a check on government interference in roles that other members of a society can do better and have a responsibility to perform. Gregg emphasized that subsidiarity is neither "anti-government" nor "anti-state" but rather recognizes the importance of government for the common good. Under subsidiarity, government should support - but not dominate - the facilitation of the common good through the actions of individuals and communities.

However, it is not just "Catholic." The Constitution's 9th and 10th Amendments conform perfectly with the idea of "subsidiarity," too. That's not because Jefferson & Co. were raving Catholics; it's because subsidiarity is common sense.

...Gregg argues that "the massive expansion of Federal government control over healthcare in the United States" should provoke the USCCB to acknowledge subsidiarity "as a vital principle for Catholics." He praised those bishops who have made clear that "striving to widen access to healthcare need not automatically translate into the state assuming a dominant role."